Wildlife shot. Your standard youngish coyote there.
With a rare day off, I hooked up with another highlander and went to check out the new access road up McDougall. It sure makes it easy to get up that climb now.
Andrew hasn’t been up here yet. Three years here and he’s just fining out about the mad variety of singletrack we call the Okanagan.
These kids are still in school and they know all about it.
Another e-acquaintance has come to town for a visit. Craig is a long time mod on MTBR.com, and a regular on NSMB. He and his wife Ina ride all over the world, so I’m feeling somewhat honoured that they are gracing us with their presence.
Mr Moose didn’t really share the sentiment. I guess we should keep our heads down today.
Barb hasn’t seem McDougall yet, and Craig was interested in seeing some local XC stuff, so up we went again. Barb really likes climbing….
We had a little snow on the trail today.
One thing about this ride is that it’s tough to get a picture that shows how cool this particular piece of singletrack really is. This shot for instance, no justice at all…
And now it’s time for fun with HDR (that’s High Dynamic Range) photoimagery.
Good times. And now back to the trail.
It was a little chilly up there today. Here’s Barb enjoying the loss of bloodflow to her fingers.
Another couple of enhanced shots with a cool tree for some added flava.
Finally, the last climb.
As usual, there’s a huge part of the descent missing. Here’s one of the many lookouts on the way down. We’re just having too much fun railing corners to take pics.
Doh!!! Barb rails one a little too hard and buys the farm. Someone won’t be waxing her legs for a while….
PS. – Happy 69th Birthday, Dad
Will is also not afraid to pedal up, so we went for a spin up McDougall today.
Hey, what can I tell you? It’s epic. A couple of hours up, a half-hour traverse, and an hour down. Su-wheeeeeeet!
Even an action shot for ya. Honestly, it’s too much trouble to pull out the camera and ruin the flow on a ride like this. Besides, we had our own little private showing of NWD8 last night, and after watching Fabien Barel destroy some Euro singletrack, we were ablsolutely flying today.
